It was said that Pres. Clinton had given a speech while visiting the CIA HQ in Langley/Virginia. He allegedly said in this speech that obtaining industrial informations has the highest priority and this were the new task for the spies.
There was a fairly large article about this in Helsingin Sanomat, the largest newspaper in Finland, some weeks ago. It was quoted as being originally from the New York Times. (I have the clip saved at home and can check the date if anyone is interested.) I do find it rather shocking that the most powerful country in the world sets industrial espionage as the primary task of their intelligence services. Now talking about those crypto restrictions worldwide and the real reasons why the United States is driving them... Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi> -- International Cryptography Pages - check http://www.cs.hut.fi/ssh/crypto